Bicycling Magazine's Century Training Program: 100 Days to 100 Miles

by Marla Streb

Book Overview

Bicycling Magazine's Century Training Program presents a complete training program for riding--and enjoying--cycling's fastest growing challenge To ride a century means to cover 100 miles in a day--no... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594861846
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Very Useful Information

I read the book and found lots of good information. It reads like a story book which I read every night at bed time and will make you wish there was a part 2. By showing her weekly riding log and her brothers weekly log. I was able to see by her brothers log that it really don't take much to ride a century. Her log shows how she over trained and what she did to get back on the bike. The book is full of tips and pointers and how to use your heart rate monitor. Good book.

Exactly what I was looking for, and needed

I used this book to train for my first century last fall. Both the book, and the century itself, were outstanding. The stories she tells turns this training plan into something much more, a real book. If you just want a dry spreadsheet full of numbers and graphs to help you train, look elsewhere. If you want that information, plus tons of helpful advice and stories from someone who has the same problems as you do (Marla's brother), then get this book. I'll be using the training plan again this summer, and will no doubt re-read the book just because I like the narrative. Enjoy it and good luck on your own century!